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Red Wing woman's rash causes plane to be quarantined for hours

Lise Sievers was returning home from Uganda when authorities feared she might be carrying a contagious disease. While the plane sat on a Chicago runway, masked men from the Centers for Disease Control photographed her rash. The verdict: bug bites.
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Lise Sievers was returning home from Uganda when authorities feared she might be carrying a contagious disease. While the plane sat on a Chicago runway, masked men from the Centers for Disease Control photographed her rash. The verdict: bug bites.

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